Hi, Guys, I just created a article on how to check how much data of a file is cached by a running operation system, please read the original version here at my tiny blog: http://admon.org/planet/what-data-cached-operation-system Generally, we can do this by two perl script: fincore http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/fincore/ fadvise http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~plonka/fadvise/ Thanks for your time, any comments is welcome!